Within the cataclysmic swirl of the Near East's history Empires have risen and fell, faiths and cultures have seen flowerings and descents into sin and desolace, and entire peoples have been swallowed up by others or cast into the wind. Deserts spread, fertility was granted by the grace of irrigation or blessed climate change, with only the distant heavens and stoic mountains possessing of that transient quality of eternity./n/nSentinels to that virtue of savage continuity, rugged endurance have stood long beyond civilized memory and stretch back far in the oral traditions of their countrymen. Hillmen who know only the lightest of touches from foreign yoke - casting off the bane and boon of domestication with a wild animal's ferocity. They do not live in savagery, but a rugged civilization etched from raw mountain stone and not rotted wood or soiled clay; building kingdoms to stand eye to eye with the great empires that come and go. Some have seen success, the Kingdoms of Armenia and Georgia standing as strong as any lowlands nation ever has, yet others struggle in division and tribal conflict: Their sovereignty shall linger past the rise and fall of kingdoms, but shall be consigned to be as distant stars in the night and hold not the ephermal ambition to challenge the sun./n/nThe Caucasus house a plethoria of people for whom history books and courtly intrigue hold no notice. Those of a particular family, a particular village, a settled valley...the rugged mountains breed division in blood as much as in land, and hold no limit to rugged individuals willing to ply their experience as bandits and raiders to greater powers. Georgians, Albanians, Turkmen, Kurds, Armenians, wayward Iranians, Arabs, Syrians and Greeks all find rank in banditry./n/nTraining, discipline, motivation beyond greed do not exist for these most irregular warriors. Their equipment center on the simple use of javelins to harass enemies from afar and in ambush, and should be used as little more than such guerilla warriors or cannon fodder.

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Ownership factions

The Kingdom of Georgia

Caucasus Hillmenmissile infantryLight javelin-bearing Irregulars with little more motivation than bandits, best served in guerilla warfare or idle harassment of the enemy.

The Kingdom of Makuria

Caucasus Hillmenmissile infantryLight javelin-bearing Irregulars with little more motivation than bandits, best served in guerilla warfare or idle harassment of the enemy.

The Kingdom of Jerusalem

Caucasus Hillmenmissile infantryLight javelin-bearing Irregulars with little more motivation than bandits, best served in guerilla warfare or idle harassment of the enemy.

The Imamate of Oman

Caucasus Hillmenmissile infantryLight javelin-bearing Irregulars with little more motivation than bandits, best served in guerilla warfare or idle harassment of the enemy.

The Khwarezm Shah

Caucasus Hillmenmissile infantryLight javelin-bearing Irregulars with little more motivation than bandits, best served in guerilla warfare or idle harassment of the enemy.

The Kypchak Confederacy

Caucasus Hillmenmissile infantryLight javelin-bearing Irregulars with little more motivation than bandits, best served in guerilla warfare or idle harassment of the enemy.

The Ghorid Sultanate

Caucasus Hillmenmissile infantryLight javelin-bearing Irregulars with little more motivation than bandits, best served in guerilla warfare or idle harassment of the enemy.

The Sultanate of Ghazni

Caucasus Hillmenmissile infantryLight javelin-bearing Irregulars with little more motivation than bandits, best served in guerilla warfare or idle harassment of the enemy.

The Solanki Rajputs

Caucasus Hillmenmissile infantryLight javelin-bearing Irregulars with little more motivation than bandits, best served in guerilla warfare or idle harassment of the enemy.

The Kingdom of Armenia

Caucasus Hillmenmissile infantryLight javelin-bearing Irregulars with little more motivation than bandits, best served in guerilla warfare or idle harassment of the enemy.

The Great Seljuks

Caucasus Hillmenmissile infantryLight javelin-bearing Irregulars with little more motivation than bandits, best served in guerilla warfare or idle harassment of the enemy.

The Malikate of Sindh

Caucasus Hillmenmissile infantryLight javelin-bearing Irregulars with little more motivation than bandits, best served in guerilla warfare or idle harassment of the enemy.

The Eastern Roman Empire

Caucasus Hillmenmissile infantryLight javelin-bearing Irregulars with little more motivation than bandits, best served in guerilla warfare or idle harassment of the enemy.

The Abbasid Caliphate

Caucasus Hillmenmissile infantryLight javelin-bearing Irregulars with little more motivation than bandits, best served in guerilla warfare or idle harassment of the enemy.

The Ayyubid Sultanate

Caucasus Hillmenmissile infantryLight javelin-bearing Irregulars with little more motivation than bandits, best served in guerilla warfare or idle harassment of the enemy.

The Turkish Sultanate

Caucasus Hillmenmissile infantryLight javelin-bearing Irregulars with little more motivation than bandits, best served in guerilla warfare or idle harassment of the enemy.

The Mongols

Caucasus Hillmenmissile infantryLight javelin-bearing Irregulars with little more motivation than bandits, best served in guerilla warfare or idle harassment of the enemy.

Rebels

Caucasus Hillmenmissile infantryLight javelin-bearing Irregulars with little more motivation than bandits, best served in guerilla warfare or idle harassment of the enemy.